How to Deal With Difficult Moms

How to Deal With Difficult PTA Moms (With Dignity)

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How to Deal With Difficult PTA Moms (With Dignity)

Welcome to our guide to Back-to-School Success: 31 days of tips, apps, recipes, and more to help you make this your family's best school year yet. Today, day 13, offers advice for navigating the (sometimes choppy!) waters of your school's PTA.

Think that getting your kids geared up for the classroom is the toughest part of heading back to school? Think again! The true challenge is how to handle those sometimes not-so-nice PTA moms. We've all ended up in sticky situations with other parents before, and we'll all end up in them again. But our hope is that next time, you'll be well-prepared. Here, how to cope with five classic classroom mom types — with grace and ease.

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Please reconfigure your site to work on droids. I see catchy headlines and can rarely access full articles. Annoying. The Difficult PTA mom story is nuthin but pix, and yes I have tried viewing it from every conceivable part of my phone and I get nada, zip nuthin but pix. Um did you think only iOS moms would be looking @ ur site? Maybe it doesn't even work on those phones

As a PTA leader, I feel some kind of way that these "difficult moms" are classified as PTA parents, since they could be any parent in an organization - PTA, room parent, booster club, sports team, etc. - and sometimes those parents who aren't efen in the organization. But that aside, the "how to handle" part has some good tips.